U-534 Sliced open with giant cheese wire!

[basilio]

Originally Posted by Quillan

I've seen pictures of it when it was at Birkenhead. It wasn't really restored; the outer hull was still rusted and holed. I imagine moving it in one piece would have been extremely difficult.

http://uboat.net/gallery/index.html?gallery=U534B

I was looking at the pictures from the above link and......
...I saw this one......
http://uboat.net/gallery/index.html?...534B&img=2
I was always laughing while looking at the sailors with this strange t-shirt from the SH4 U-boat mission addon....now I realize they are "historically correct"

[M. Sarsfield]

The 7th and 8th picture from the bottom at this URL:

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08228.htm

Is what happends when you leave your WW2 submarines laying around outside with poor maintenance and upkeep.

Drum is finally getting a face lift. They recently installed high voltage receptacles near the boat to start welding repairs at the stern. Drum is the 2008 "Restoration Project" of the year for the Lockwood Internet Base of the USSVI. Next year they will pick a different museum boat that needs financial help and raise money for it.

[kikn79]

Originally Posted by Graf Paper

Speaking of U-505, am I right in the thought that the recently completed restoration makes this XIC boat more or less in mint condition and she's as new and seaworthy as the day she slipped out of drydock?

She's in good condition, but not seaworthy. They cut 2 huge holes in the side of the hull (just aft of the forward torpedo room and just forward of the aft torpedo room) for tours. I went there last summer and took a tour. It was interesting with lots of sounds and lights for the tourists. No pictures were allowed inside and the tour guide just follows a script. You really can't ask any questions. (at least thats what they said when I was there.) I liked the USS Cobia tour better.

Here's a pic I took, though.



Chuck

[Ducimus]

Der See Kow ....turned Cash Cow :rotfl:

[M. Sarsfield]

I like visiting the boats that let you feel at home. If I want Disney World, I'll go there. Still, I need to see the 505 at least once.

[modisch]

Originally Posted by -Pv-

At least one U-boat wreck was found in the last couple years off the US East coast. German records indicates it should have been thousands of miles away from where it was found.
-Pv-

there are quite a few uboat wrecks along the east coast. Three are listed on this diving site for North Carolina.

Kinda hard to 'tour' a wreck on the seafloor. But it's probably makes for good diving for the folks that do that. I've never done more than snorkeling, though... so no uboat wrecks for me.

-m

[SimHq Tom Cofield]

If it wasn't for the Museum of Science and industry the 505 probably would have ended up as a target on the ocean floor. I don't think they have ever made a 'profit' off of the boat. If I remember right she has been called a great big white elephant for the museum.

I've paid several times to see her, although I haven't been there since the concrete cover was put into place. I just thank goodness that she is still around.

[CaptHawkeye]

Originally Posted by M. Sarsfield

Drum is finally getting a face lift. They recently installed high voltage receptacles near the boat to start welding repairs at the stern. Drum is the 2008 "Restoration Project" of the year for the Lockwood Internet Base of the USSVI. Next year they will pick a different museum boat that needs financial help and raise money for it.

At least some of the museum dudes got up off of their asses for USS Texas when it turned out it was about to sink at its morings just because of rust. Too bad they always ass themselves to get into it well after the ship has turned a less than lovely shade of metallic brown and gray.